JUDGE

Passages on this topic · 268

• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Exodus 18:22

  Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

• Exodus 22:9

  For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

• Exodus 22:28

  “You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

• Leviticus 19:15

  “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

• Deuteronomy 1:12

  How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

• Deuteronomy 1:13

  Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

• Deuteronomy 1:14

  You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”

• Deuteronomy 1:15

  So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

• Deuteronomy 1:16

  I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

• Deuteronomy 1:17

  You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

• Deuteronomy 16:18

  You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

• Deuteronomy 16:19

  You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Deuteronomy 16:20

  You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

• Deuteronomy 17:8

  If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

• Deuteronomy 17:9

  You shall come to the priests who are Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

• Deuteronomy 17:10

  You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

• Deuteronomy 17:11

  according to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

• Deuteronomy 19:16

  If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

• Deuteronomy 19:17

  then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

• Deuteronomy 19:18

  and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

• Deuteronomy 19:19

  then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 25:1

  If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

• Deuteronomy 25:2

  It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

• Deuteronomy 25:3

  He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

• Judges 2:16

  Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

• Judges 2:17

  Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

• Judges 2:18

  When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

• Judges 2:19

  But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

• Judges 3:9

  When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

• Judges 3:10

  Yahweh’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.

• Judges 3:11

  The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

• Judges 3:15

  But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

• Judges 3:16

  Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.

• Judges 3:17

  He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

• Judges 3:18

  When he had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.

• Judges 3:19

  But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.

• Judges 3:20

  Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

• Judges 3:21

  Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

• Judges 3:22

  and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.

• Judges 3:23

  Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

• Judges 3:24

  After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.”

• Judges 3:25

  They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.

• Judges 3:26

  Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.

• Judges 3:27

  When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.

• Judges 3:28

  He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.

• Judges 3:29

  They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man, and every man of valor. No man escaped.

• Judges 3:30

  So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.

• Judges 3:31

  After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.

• Judges 4:4

  Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.

• Judges 6:11

  Yahweh’s angel came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

• Judges 6:12

  Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

• Judges 6:13

  Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

• Judges 6:14

  Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”

• Judges 6:15

  He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

• Judges 6:16

  Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”

• Judges 6:17

  He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

• Judges 6:18

  Please don’t go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” He said, “I will wait until you come back.”

• Judges 6:19

  Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

• Judges 6:20

  The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” He did so.

• Judges 6:21

  Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.

• Judges 6:22

  Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”

• Judges 6:23

  Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”

• Judges 6:24

  Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it “Yahweh is Peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

• Judges 6:25

  That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.

• Judges 6:26

  Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

• Judges 6:27

  Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

• Judges 6:28

  When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.

• Judges 6:29

  They said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”

• Judges 6:30

  Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”

• Judges 6:31

  Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”

• Judges 6:32

  Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”

• Judges 6:33

  Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

• Judges 6:34

  But Yahweh’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him.

• Judges 6:35

  He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

• Judges 6:36

  Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

• Judges 6:37

  behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• Judges 6:38

  It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

• Judges 6:39

  Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

• Judges 6:40

  God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

• Judges 9:1

  Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

• Judges 9:2

  “Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

• Judges 9:3

  His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”

• Judges 9:4

  They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

• Judges 9:5

  He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

• Judges 9:6

  All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

• Judges 9:7

  When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

• Judges 9:8

  The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

• Judges 9:9

  “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:10

  “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:11

  “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:12

  “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:13

  “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:14

  “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:15

  “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

• Judges 9:16

  “Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands

• Judges 9:17

  (for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

• Judges 9:18

  and you have risen up against my father’s house today, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

• Judges 9:19

  if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;

• Judges 9:20

  but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.”

• Judges 9:21

  Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

• Judges 9:22

  Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.

• Judges 9:23

  Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

• Judges 9:24

  that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

• Judges 9:25

  The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them, and Abimelech was told about it.

• Judges 9:26

  Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.

• Judges 9:27

  They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

• Judges 9:28

  Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

• Judges 9:29

  I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army, and come out!”

• Judges 9:30

  When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.

• Judges 9:31

  He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.

• Judges 9:32

  Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

• Judges 9:33

  It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”

• Judges 9:34

  Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

• Judges 9:35

  Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.

• Judges 9:36

  When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” Zebul said to him, “You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.”

• Judges 9:37

  Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”

• Judges 9:38

  Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”

• Judges 9:39

  Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

• Judges 9:40

  Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.

• Judges 9:41

  Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

• Judges 9:42

  On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

• Judges 9:43

  He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them, and struck them.

• Judges 9:44

  Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.

• Judges 9:45

  Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people in it. He beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

• Judges 9:46

  When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.

• Judges 9:47

  Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

• Judges 9:48

  Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”

• Judges 9:49

  All the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

• Judges 9:50

  Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

• Judges 9:51

  But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.

• Judges 9:52

  Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

• Judges 9:53

  A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.

• Judges 9:54

  Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”

• Judges 10:1

  After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

• Judges 10:2

  He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

• Judges 10:3

  After him Jair, the Gileadite arose, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

• Judges 10:4

  He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

• Judges 10:5

  Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

• Judges 12:1

  The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”

• Judges 12:2

  Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.

• Judges 12:3

  When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”

• Judges 12:4

  Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”

• Judges 12:5

  The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. When the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No”;

• Judges 12:6

  then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it right: then they seized him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

• Judges 12:7

  Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.

• Judges 12:8

  After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

• Judges 12:9

  He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.

• Judges 12:10

  Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.

• Judges 12:11

  After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

• Judges 12:12

  Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

• Judges 12:13

  After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

• Judges 12:14

  He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.

• 1 Samuel 2:12

  Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 2:13

  The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;

• 1 Samuel 2:14

  and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

• 1 Samuel 2:15

  Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”

• 1 Samuel 2:16

  If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires”; then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

• 1 Samuel 2:17

  The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 2:22

  Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• 1 Samuel 2:23

  He said to them, “Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

• 1 Samuel 2:24

  No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.

• 1 Samuel 2:25

  If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

• 1 Samuel 4:18

  When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

• 1 Samuel 7:6

  They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

• 1 Samuel 7:15

  Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

• 1 Samuel 7:16

  He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

• 1 Samuel 7:17

  His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.

• 1 Samuel 8:1

  When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

• 1 Samuel 8:2

  Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

• 1 Samuel 8:3

  His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

• 1 Samuel 8:4

  Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 8:5

  They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

• 2 Samuel 8:15

  David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

• 2 Samuel 15:2

  Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

• 1 Kings 3:9

  Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

• 1 Kings 3:16

  Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

• 1 Kings 3:17

  The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

• 1 Kings 3:18

  The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

• 1 Kings 3:19

  This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.

• 1 Kings 3:20

  She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

• 1 Kings 3:21

  When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”

• 1 Kings 3:22

  The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:23

  Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”

• 1 Kings 3:24

  The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:25

  The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

• 1 Kings 3:26

  Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

• 1 Kings 3:27

  Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

• 1 Kings 3:28

  All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

• 1 Kings 10:9

  Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

• 1 Kings 21:8

  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:9

  She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

• 1 Kings 21:11

  The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

• 1 Kings 21:12

  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:13

  The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

• 2 Kings 8:1

  Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

• 2 Kings 8:2

  The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

• 2 Kings 8:3

  At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

• 2 Kings 8:4

  Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

• 2 Kings 8:5

  As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”

• 2 Kings 8:6

  When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

• 2 Chronicles 19:5

  He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

• 2 Chronicles 19:6

  and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

• 2 Chronicles 19:7

  Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

• 2 Chronicles 19:8

  Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 19:9

  He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

• 2 Chronicles 19:10

  Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

• Ezra 7:25

  You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

• Psalms 58:1

  For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

• Psalms 58:2

  No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

• Psalms 72:1

  By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

• Psalms 72:2

  He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

• Psalms 72:3

  The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

• Psalms 72:4

  He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

• Psalms 72:12

  For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

• Psalms 72:13

  He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

• Psalms 72:14

  He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

• Psalms 82:2

  “How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

• Psalms 82:3

  “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

• Psalms 82:4

  Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

• Proverbs 24:23

  These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

• Isaiah 5:22

  Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

• Isaiah 5:23

  who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

• Isaiah 28:5

  In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;

• Isaiah 28:6

  and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

• Ezekiel 44:23

  They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

• Ezekiel 44:24

  In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.

• Daniel 9:12

  He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

• Micah 7:3

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Zephaniah 3:3

  Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

• Matthew 26:57

  Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

• Matthew 26:58

  But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

• Matthew 26:59

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

• Matthew 26:60

  and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

• Matthew 26:61

  and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”

• Matthew 26:62

  The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

• Matthew 27:11

  Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

• Matthew 27:12

  When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

• Matthew 27:13

  Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”

• Matthew 27:14

  He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

• Matthew 27:15

  Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

• Matthew 27:16

  They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

• Matthew 27:17

  When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?”

• Matthew 27:18

  For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

• Matthew 27:19

  While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

• Matthew 27:20

  Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

• Matthew 27:21

  But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, “Barabbas!”

• Matthew 27:22

  Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”

• Matthew 27:23

  But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”

• Matthew 27:24

  So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

• Matthew 27:25

  All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

• Matthew 27:26

  Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

• Mark 15:15

  Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

• Mark 15:19

  They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

• Mark 15:20

  When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

• Mark 15:21

  They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.

• Mark 15:22

  They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.”

• Mark 15:23

  They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.

• Mark 15:24

  Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

• John 7:24

  Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

• Acts 13:20

  After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

• Acts 23:34

  When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,

• Acts 23:35

  “I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

• Acts 24:26

  Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often, and talked with him.

• Acts 24:27

  But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

• Acts 25:11

  For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

• Acts 25:12

  Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”